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Hardcore vaccine refuseniks could need deradicalising like terrorists – expert-(UK)
https://www.itv.com ^ | Wednesday 8 December 2021, 12:01am | itv

Posted on 01/08/2022 6:36:34 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

A “deradicalisation” programme like those given to former terrorists or cult members might be the only way to dissuade some hardcore antivaxxers from their beliefs, according to one psychology expert.

Around six million eligible people in the UK have not received a single jab a year on from the first Covid vaccination being given in the UK.

Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, chair in cognitive psychology at the University of Bristol, was keen to stress that many of those are likely to be “marginalised” people who are “very difficult to reach for anything”, and for whom access is likely to be the biggest issue rather than psychological or ideological factors.

But for a small section of “hardcore refuseniks”, he said, it may be difficult to reach them by conventional means because their beliefs are so ingrained.

He told the PA news agency: “They’ll refuse anything – ‘I’m not going to wear a mask’, ‘I’m not going to get vaccinated’, ‘I don’t think climate change is happening’, ‘Covid is a hoax’, and, you know, ‘Hillary Clinton is actually a reptilian shapeshifter’.

“You’re getting to people who hold a cluster of very exotic beliefs – now, they’re very difficult to reach.”

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1 posted on 01/08/2022 6:36:34 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

First, we kill all the bureaucrats.


2 posted on 01/08/2022 6:38:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: RomanSoldier19

Waiting...


3 posted on 01/08/2022 6:41:57 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: RomanSoldier19

I was told when very young never to back an animal into an area it could not readily flee.


4 posted on 01/08/2022 6:42:12 PM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: RomanSoldier19

Yeah, well, you’ll have to take away my guns by force before that happens.


5 posted on 01/08/2022 6:42:30 PM PST by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

“Stephan Lewandowsky”

Isn’t he a former Aussie Gorbal Warning NUTCASE?


6 posted on 01/08/2022 6:45:02 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: RomanSoldier19

How about improving the vaccine itself so you don’t have to worry about what others do?

The Indian vaccine was not made using human fetal cells. It is being used in Mexico.


7 posted on 01/08/2022 6:45:47 PM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: Paladin2

SL is NOT an expurt in ANYTHING.


8 posted on 01/08/2022 6:46:01 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: RomanSoldier19

The Fascists are really coming out of the woodwork now.


9 posted on 01/08/2022 6:46:02 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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10 posted on 01/08/2022 6:47:00 PM PST by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit; )
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11 posted on 01/08/2022 6:47:50 PM PST by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit; )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
First, we kill all the bureaucrats.

What a great idea!

And, Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, the "radical" thing would seem to be allowing yourself to be injected with an experimental genetic substance which may be more harmful than beneficial.

The sound, prudent thing would seem to be exercising patience and observing how the experimental substance affects those who have already been injected with it.

Especially since the experimental injection has been designed to counter a virus with a 99.7%-plus recovery rate.

Professor Stephan Lewandowsky is a propagandist.

12 posted on 01/08/2022 6:48:08 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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You’re getting to people who hold a cluster of very exotic beliefs – now, they’re very difficult to reach.

Yeah, like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Kooks like that should be confined to an area behind impenetrable walls - we could call it, oh, I dunno, the United States of America?

13 posted on 01/08/2022 6:48:40 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: RomanSoldier19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Lewandowsky


14 posted on 01/08/2022 6:49:42 PM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: RomanSoldier19

How do you convince people that you are the reasonable ones? Talk about sending the people who disagree with you to reeducation camps.


15 posted on 01/08/2022 6:50:43 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

That’s a hill I’ll die upon. I’ve had 5he CCP flu and received the monoclonal antibody infusion treatment. Not taking the population reduction kill shot.


16 posted on 01/08/2022 6:51:26 PM PST by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The guy who needs deprogramming is Dr. Bolshevikski himself


17 posted on 01/08/2022 6:53:18 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Hillary as a reptilian shape shifter might be exaggerating a bit. But on the other hand yeah, I could see it.


18 posted on 01/08/2022 6:57:06 PM PST by technically right
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To: RomanSoldier19

Like the way they did ISIS returnees? Cool, so you get no penalties, get a rental house and a pension?

Awesome.


19 posted on 01/08/2022 6:59:20 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Stephan,

I find Joe’s 85-car motorcade, private jets used to get to get-togethers, continued immigration, massive new mansions, etc. incompatible with climate change claims.

Italians have a saying that says judge by actions and not by words.


20 posted on 01/08/2022 7:00:19 PM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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